US 11,974,173 B2
Wired telephone to volte adapter
Mark David Hedstrom, Naples, FL (US); Taylor Jonathan Stroobosscher, Estero, FL (US); Matthew Terry Miller, Bonita Springs, FL (US); and John Nicholas Shevillo, Naples, FL (US)
Assigned to Brightsk, LLC, Naples, FL (US)
Filed by BrightSky, LLC, Naples, FL (US)
Filed on Sep. 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/929,133.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/240,066, filed on Sep. 2, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0062629 A1, Mar. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. H04M 3/00 (2006.01); H04M 5/00 (2006.01); H04M 9/08 (2006.01); H04N 1/327 (2006.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 76/16 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 36/0022 (2013.01) [H04M 9/082 (2013.01); H04N 1/32713 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A radio communications device supporting 4G/5G Long Term Evolution (LTE) cellular communications, the radio communications device comprising:
a data interface configured to exchange modem control commands and audio data with an LTE cellular modem;
a telephone interface configured to provide a two-wire analog telephone interface for connection to a telephone device; and
a controller configured to:
exchange control signals via the telephone interface to manage voice call operations with the telephone device;
exchange analog voice channel signals corresponding to digitally modulated voice channel signals exchanged with the telephone device via the telephone interface;
convert signals between the analog voice channel signals and a Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) voice channel data stream;
exchange control information with the LTE cellular modem via the data interface to establish and manage an LTE cellular session; and
exchange the Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) voice channel data stream via the LTE cellular session via the LTE cellular modem.